Excess weight is one of the most common issues with appearance that people want to change. In many cases, the cause is very straightforward, with a combination of poor diet and a lack of exercise leading to weight gain. In that instance, the solution is obviously to eat more healthily and burn off more calories.
However, it doesn’t always work like that, especially for women. Even after a lot of salads, numerous jogs and plenty of gym sessions, areas of fat around the belly, thighs and buttocks can persist.
This leads to the question being asked about just how you can resolve the situation. Is it about specific exercises that concentrate on those areas, or is this where cosmetic procedures may achieve what no other efforts can?
If you really have tried everything but there are still some persistent fatty areas, you will feel real justification in considering procedures like fat dissolving injections.
The way these work is usually through the use of Kybella, a chemical that triggers a process called lipolysis, which occurs naturally in the digestive system when the body breaks down fats. Aqualix is another material that can be used.
What the injections do is trigger chemical reactions similar to those in the stomach, helping to dissolve fat in the same way it would be broken down as it is digested after being eaten.
By breaking down fat cells in this way, the process offers an alternative to liposuction, helping the body to destroy fat itself rather than it having to be surgically removed.
This is bound to prompt a few questions, however. Are there cons as well as pros to the process? Are there significant health risks or unpleasant side effects? It is certainly worth knowing the answers to these questions before considering this step.
Firstly, the procedure is almost invariably safe. True, a very small number of people will get a severe allergic reaction, but this is true of so many other things from some types of antibiotics through to certain foods and, indeed, vaccinations. And as we have seen with the latter, only a hardcore of extremists take that as a ‘logical’ reason not to get a jab.
Indeed, like a vaccination, a fat-dissolving injection may produce a few minor side effects, such as some pain, swelling, or bruising. But these are almost always minor and soon fade away.
Similarly, the injection will hurt a little bit, but no more or less than any other jab. The one real problem that can arise here is if you suffer from trypanophobia, the fear of needles.
That last issue does relate to another point you should be aware of; the process is not about one single procedure. It requires multiple treatments and takes a few weeks before results start to show, so you will have to be patient.
However, that may make the autumn or winter the best time to have such a process undertaken. During this time you won’t be revealing areas of flesh in the way you would in summer when you hit the beach, so you can start now and have some wonderful smooth features to show off next year.
